Birth Control or Food?

I am on the Planned Parenthood email listserv, and received a message from them entitled “Pills or dinner?”
According to PP,

A legislative error made the price of birth control skyrocket for low-income and college-age women. It was a devastating, unintended mistake, and Planned Parenthood started working immediately to help Congress restore affordable birth control.

Please [...]

Removal of Abortion from Med School Curricula

This shocking account of a med student witnessing the subtle eradication of education on abortions in medical school is frightening. Medicine, as Pyle says, should be a place on which politics should not intrude. If doctors are afraid to speak up, what kind of health care can we expect?
Pyle writes:
Medicine today is “evidence-based.” Treatments must [...]

Way to go Wisconsin!

On Thursday, the Wisconsin state senate passed the Compassionate Care for Rape Victims bill that would require hospitals to offer access to emergency contraception for women after they have been raped.  While this law would be well overdue, it is certainly a great advance in the fight for reproductive justice in Wisconsin.  From the Badger Herald:
Sara [...]

Blogging for Choice: the Marquette Tribune

I was hoping there would be an piece in our school’s newspaper that spoke to the fact that today is the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade and it just so happens, there was.  But my hopes for an article that commemorated this momentous event were slowly diminished as I read an editorial that really refused [...]